Have you devoured the eight episodes of The Woman Who Lived Opposite the Girl at the Window broadcast on Netflix since last Friday? So it’s time to come back to the identity of the killer with the creators of the series.
Warning, spoilers! This article reveals key plot elements of The Woman Who Lived Opposite the Girl in the Window. If you haven’t seen the series, don’t read on.
With its status as a satire, we suspected that The Woman Who Lived Opposite the Girl at the Window was not going to end in an ordinary way and serve up a killer like we have already seen a thousand times in the endless thrillers that the parody series.
Except that there, we cross a course. No one could have predicted that the person who killed Lisa (Shelley Hennig), Neil’s (Tom Riley) girlfriend – the neighbor who just moved in across from Anna (Kristen Bell) – his first wife ( Janina Gavankar), the schoolteacher and Neil himself is none other than his own daughter, Emma (Samsara Yett).
It is therefore a child who has made a real carnage and who assumes herself as a real psychopath during a very brutal final confrontation with Anna. In an interview with TV Line, Rachel Ramras, co-creator of the series, talks about this unexpected final twist:
“We knew it would be Emma all along. He’s literally the most absurd person to [incarner] the killer, and in a show where we build absurdity every episode, it made a lot of sense. We were lucky to find an actress like Samsara, who could do it, because you must have [quelqu’un qui peut] play someone sinister while being adorable. And watching Kristen Bell fight a kid is the funniest thing in the world.“
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Kristen Bell gives a little more context on this unusual fight scene. “We had to learn a choreographed fight sequence, and when you do it with a 9-year-old, it’s basically a dance. You really need to know where your body is in relation to her. We had a stand-in, but Samsara did quite a bit.“
“Our director Michael Lehman was amazing…and it was done piece by piece. There were a lot of repetitions. And we wanted a long, brutal, graphic fight. We didn’t want it to be a cartoon fight“adds Larry Dorf, co-creator of the series.
It was perhaps the best possible conclusion for this successful parody from start to finish.